Arabic Text In After Effects

ok i have my PC set up so that i can type arabic on it, when i type the arabic in word in comes out fine, i take taht same text and copy and paste it into after effects and the text comes out backwards (because arabic is right to left and english is left to right)

so i tried typing the letters backwords but that didnt work because arabic is written in a cursive type way so even if the letters come out in the same order there not connected

i tried copying it from word to phothop then exporting the pixels as a PNG but when i take that into after effects i still get white around the text, plus i dont want to export the text as a picture because i cant work with its charectors and animate it in after effects and its not anti aliad, what should i do, i mean ive seen it done before u guys have any clue?

Well, one solution would be using an Illustrator file. You will not experience any loss of quality even as you zoom in because it is be vector based. AE does have issues with Asian and Arabic languages... Maybe someone else will have a workaround.

Re: Arabic Text In After Effectsby Javier Morgade on May 18, 2010 at 10:45:00 am

And in fact, in that case (copying the text from Word, which I understand is the case of this thread), YES, I tried it; and YES, it works.
Good script, by the way, I will use it next time. Thanks for sharing.

This is a website that converts arabic font to fit after effects and photoshop simply copy the text you want to convert in arabic paste it there and click convert n copy to clipboard and it will flip the text to fit there n paste in after effects or photoshop and ur good to go http://www.arabic-keyboard.org/photoshop-arabic/